VMware subsidiary SpringSource has launched a new version of its Hyperic software

Microsoft targets VMware customers as it prepares for VMworld.

Configuring Active Directory-integrated security for ESXi hosts is easy; managing the license, a bit more complicated.

VMware on Tuesday reported a 48 percent jump in revenue for the second quarter, a greater increase than expected, and raised its outlook for the full year on strong demand for its virtualization software.

VMware last week introduced vSphere 4.1, it latest virtualization platform. vSphere 4.1 has a variety of storage offerings but primarily the vStorage API for Array integration (VAAI), which allows VMware ESX servers to offload several storage operations to the storage hardware.

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Well – in a nutshell – more, for less.

The vStorage APIs for Array integration (or VAAI) have been something that we previewed back at VMworld 2009.

Now that vSphere 4.1 is officially out, we can now talk about it without tapdancing around a lot of stuff.

I did a webcast on this topic the week before last.  I needed to step carefully around not saying “vSphere 4.1” or committed dates/functions, but now you know…  

One of DRS's features is the ability to set separation or combination rules.

VMware co-founder Ed Bugnion, now at Cisco, is making sure the network adapts to the age of virtualization.

VMware engineer Michael White’s post 64 bit is almost here – are you ready? on the Uptime (VMware and Business Continuity) Blog foretells of the future 64 bit requirement of both vCenter and... This is a summary only. Visit http://vmetc.com for full content.

Great news in Atmos land! First of all – what is Atmos? Atmos may seem like something new to many, but you use Atmos-like stuff every day.  If you think about YouTube, or your Facebook pictures, or Twitpics – or the type of storage used for these new funky scale-out noSQL based applications, it ain’t your usual SAN/NAS stuff.   Those are all examples of next gen apps that leverage this class of storage platform.